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Paul McCurdie

@pmcc66.bsky.social
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Reader of both good and bad science fiction, lover of dogs and elephants. Oh and whales. Birds, too. Trying to read more non-fiction. Mechanical engineer working with mineral processing equipment.

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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 42m
Put your clutching pearls away. wapo.st/4yKNU27
wapo.st
Troops loitering near D.C. ballot box were not guarding it, National Guard says
Video of soldiers in front of an early-voting site concerned residents.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's a weak question and I struggle to see the relevance. Typical MAGA combative non-answer that furthers their propaganda. Who cares what aircraft they use? The deportations are still unnecessarily cruel.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How do we stop this? Public executions are what horrible countries do.
wsj.com
Pentagon Says Fort Hood Shooter Execution Will Be Livestreamed
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he wanted to ensure ‘people are able to watch it;’ a firing squad is planned
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Isn't hiring lower cost employees capitalism? Socialism would be to charge tariffs on imports to prop up companies that can't compete. Could you imagine anyone doing that? Accepting transgendered people is not an economic system. It's a choice. You can accept trans people or be a dickhead.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think it's a win for religious liberty. Namely, those of us who don't believe in a non-evidentiary origination mythology are liberated from your 14th century thinking. Besides, according to the novel you believe is true, God made everything. Even the gays. Why do you hate God, Sammy?
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You mean Putin Apologist/Bootlicker introduced...
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And now Trump's balls are resting on Lee's weak chin.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t like him because he’s a crook, rapist, child rapist, possibly a murderer, racist, misogynist, and represents everything that is bad about America.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Iraq did not have WMDs. Republicans lie to go to war.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Women need to strap-on and step up. That will get the laws changed!
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am sure the Lexus driver's transgression justified this sort of jackassery.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wonder if Boeing management are looking at the loads the FlyDubai 737MAX was subjected to and thinking that the aircraft structure is too robust. Overdesigning the airframe does shareholders a disservice.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The good news is you will be spewing something of more substance than what comes out of Trump's mouth.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No, we wouldn't. Murder is not the answer. It's sad to see how many people agree with killing rich people. We are lucky to live in a place where so many millionaires and billionaires are produced. Yes, there are downsides. The issue is one of taxes and dynastic wealth.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And I will vote for him over almost any Republican if he's the not Republican presidential nominee. I say almost any because there might be a non-MAGA republican out there that talks sense.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You are too nice. I think she's a cunt.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow. Really? It's such a festering hole of suck. New Bern, NC is better. Tokyo is better. Milano is better. Paris is better.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is an interesting piece on jobs reports.
open.substack.com
Revising My Summer Forecast Down
Your questions on the September jobs report, from where the revisions come from to whether AI is behind the losses.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You will have plenty of bathroom time to post between now and Wednesday!
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Powerful child raping Republican dies. @wsj.com, I fixed the headline for you. Tell Uncle Satan to pay me.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A republican pedophile. What are the odds?
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gosh, this is so unexpected. I wish they'd take Hegseth back.
nytimes.com
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am all for it. Let's go light touch but Sam is personally responsible for anything bad that happens as a result of ChatGPT causing harm.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's interesting that Republicans think there is more corruption among Democrats than Republicans. I don't understand how they think that way given the blatant corruption of this administration. Am I seeing the wrong information?
paulkrugman.substack.com
The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption
And fighting it should be at the heart of the Democratic agenda
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was an interesting podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com
Pivot Extra: Timothy Snyder on America’s Superpower Suicide
Podcast Episode · Pivot · October 4 · 50m
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did he take Trump’s cock out of his mouth when he said that or did he just mumble around it? What a coward.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m not sure why the shoes were important…
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was talking to my 91 yo mother yesterday. She said something along the lines of that woman shouldn’t put herself in that situation. I told her that it shouldn’t be an issue because men shouldn’t be rapists. In fact, they should have taken her shoes off, tucked her in, and left a puke bucket.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is the Putin sycophant playing?
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nice sentiment but I don’t think the pope said it. That’s the problem with memes. They are usually false.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Matters to me too. Make sure you don't support MAGA businesses. They are anti-American, anti-Constitution, and fly in the face of what truly makes America great!
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's being negative about Trump. CNN does that an he whines like a little bitch.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good. They are suffering the consequences of their actions. It sucks for the rest of us because everything is more expensive.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The guy on the roof did not appear to have fall protection. Falls from heights are the number one cause of fatalities in construction. No job is worth your life.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last month's numbers were pretty good, not so much this month. wapo.st/4ys1zuN
wapo.st
U.S. economy added 29,000 jobs in September, signaling a slower labor market
Forecasters had expected gains of about 84,000 new jobs in September, consistent with a stable but sluggish labor market.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a relatively small snapshot but the trend is concerning. Almost all of the economic growth is in AI. That's masking an overall weakness in the economy. I'm an engineer, not an economist, but the data have me concerned. This looks like another dotcom bubble.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Schmitt could rape a child and get elected by MAGA. They did it with Trump. It's cute when non-MAGA people apply their standards to MAGA. MAGA are rather amoral.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The key here is VOTE. Get out and VOTE. MAGA wants to take that right away from you.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Essar would request quotes for the equipment that they reneged on, complain about the price, complain about the payment terms (100% with order rather than milestones), and then disappear. I am jaded about anything involving Essar.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Essar is involved. The company I used to work for was awarded a significant contract from them for process equipment. Essar went bankrupt and my former employer was stuck with millions in equipment that could not be easily sold for other projects. Somehow the Essar name lived on.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The cover is great and so is the story. I loved this book.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I thought these graphs were interesting. Imagine if we had solar panels and were putting power back on the grid to power data centers.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think that is a coonhound - Treeing Walker. I love hounds.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kitten is such a cute nickname for Kara!
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh no! Bari is being censored and silenced again! We will have to hear about it over and over and over again.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Give him a parachute, a gun, and drop him in Tehran.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I agree that Congress can't regulate AI. Most of those old farts can't use email. Remember, they gave us HIPAA. We are still faxing medical records/orders/prescriptions because of their ignorance.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Boeing has such a stellar record, why not? The KC-46 has been a runaway success, as has the 777-X. The 737 has no issues. Let's not mention Starliner...
wsj.com
Navy Chooses Boeing to Build Next-Generation Jet Fighter
The more than $20 billion award for F/A-XX adds to string of wins for company’s defense business.
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Paul McCurdie @pmcc66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ha! Pitcher and catcher!
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